A Stone’s Throw Accommodation – Nestled on the hilltops above Grahamstown. Offering country living “A Stone’s Throw” from the University town of Grahamstown, where you can enjoy panoramic vistas and witness gorgeous sunsets from a spacious garden setting, surrounded by open countryside. Located just 2km’s off the N2, an easy seven minute drive into the city centre.

The choice is yours but you can be assured a friendly ambience ensures a welcoming stay. Wake up to spectacular country views, a Stone’s Throw away. You are independent to enjoy sunsets, escape from the hustle and bustle, watch a variety of indigenous bird life, star-gaze, and soak up the sunshine with a book or take an energetic hike up to the Toposcope. We look forward to giving you a Warm Eastern Cape Welcome!

Grahamstown, Eastern Cape is situated as an ideal stopover between the Garden Route, or Cape Town or en route to Kwazulu-Natal. The city is home to the Camera Obscura, the Albany Museum Collection, the National Arts Festival, Rhodes University, the Coelacanth as well as the renowned boarding schools, Kingswood College, St Andrews and Diocesan School for Girls. The beaches of Kenton-on-Sea, Kasouga and Port Alfred are nearby and world class Big Five Reserves, Addo Elephant Park and Port Elizabeth are just over one hour away.

A Stone’s Throw B&B is ideal for visitors to the wide variety of attractions historical and educational in Grahamstown including, Rhodes University, Kingswood College, St Andrews College, The Diocesan School for Girls. Other well-known schools in the town include Graeme College, Victoria Girls’ High School, and P J Olivier Hoerskool. Grahamstown is also host to a campus of the Eastcape Midlands College.

Artificers Square, the old artisan quarter with many restored original houses which reflect a number of 1820 Settler architectural styles. The Botanical Gardens, 1820 Settlers National Monument, Fort Selwyn, Gunfire Hill, used as a lookout point for the garrison in early Grahamstown years. Albany History Museum, Selmar Schonland Herbarium, a pressed plant library.

National English Literary Museum & Bookshop, Observatory Museum. The Observatory is a unique multi-storeyed 19th century Victorian shop and home which is now a museum. Visit the Egazini Memorial one of the first township based heritage sites in South Africa. The Memorial marks the event of the Battle of Grahamstown which took place in 1819.

Don’t forget the students “night-life” including some wonderful restaurants and viby pubs and much much more.

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